Tom Morris

Mashups

Introduction Permalink

Below, I've put links to a bunch of little mashups and data sources I've built.

Twitter Tube Tracker Permalink

The Twitter Tube Tracker uses Twitter and screen scraping to send out data on Tube delays to Twitter.

It was written up on my blog on 22 February 2007.

Below are the Tube lines.

Bakerloo: tubebakerloo (Atom, RSS)

Circle: tubecircle (Atom, RSS)

Central: tubecentral (Atom, RSS)

District: tubedistrict (Atom, RSS)

East London: tubeeastlon (Atom, RSS)

Hammersmith and City: tubehcity (Atom, RSS)

Jubilee: tubejubilee (Atom, RSS)

Metropolitan: tubemetro (Atom, RSS)

Northern: tubenorthern (Atom, RSS)

Piccadilly: tubepiccadil (Atom, RSS)

Victoria: tubevictoria (Atom, RSS)

Waterloo and City: tubewcity (Atom, RSS)

There is also available an XML and JSON feed.

BART Twitter Permalink

A few days after I built the Twitter Tube Tracker, I put together a Twitter feed for delays on San Francisco's BART system.

Blog entry, Twitter.

YouTube as OPML Permalink

Lets you explore YouTube data using OPML and Grazr. Blog entry.

OPath Permalink

OPath is a way to slice up OPML files in to addressable chunks. It's quite ugly and leads to really messy URLs, but it works.

Digg browser Permalink

Last year, I wrote a digg browser. The core functionality has broken because of the digg redesign, and I haven't gotten around to fixing it yet. The story was dugg too.

BBC Schedules Permalink

I've written interfaces to the BBC schedule data. Writeup. The most useful thing is being able to view this stuff on your iPod.

OPML to XOXO Permalink

xoxofrontier patches the OPML Editor to output XOXO.

Skype and Gizmo Operator Permalink

I have produced two Operator plugins that let you call telephone numbers in hCards using Voice Over IP applications Skype and the Gizmo Project.

MySpace Scraper Permalink

Due to technical issues, the MySpace scraper is currently down. I hope to help it make a return soon.

I was fed up with having to visit MySpace and suffer it's terrible design and irritating user experience just to keep track of what my friends are up to.

So I put together a scraper to extract things frm MySpace. Specifically, it gets comments posted to profiles, school information and a few other bits and pieces. The main use is so that you can get an RSS feed of comments posted to a person's profile.

It's accessible at the following URL:

xml.opiumfield.com/myspace/[username]/[format]

Format can be 'xml', 'opml', 'rss', 'rdf' or 'json'. I'd avoid the json feed. The straight xml feed contains the most information, while the rss feed contains just the comments organised in to RSS 2.0 format.

Remember The Milk Quicksilver script Permalink

Under construction! (Or is it 'beta'?) I've built a way to post tasks to Remember The Milk from Macintosh tool Quicksilver. I am not sure how easily I can release this, but I will when I can.


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